Harris on Addressing Inflation: I Know Prices Are Too High Still ... And We Have to Deal with It

UNKNOWN FEMALE (via translator): “I used to spend $250 in food, and now it goes up to 350. Not only do I talk about food, but utilities, clothes, everything is much more expensive. I am middle class and I work a lot, and just like everybody else in the middle class, we work very hard. You said we’re ambitious, but that ambition, sometimes it’s really difficult to keep up with because we see life is going up and we just simply cannot go ahead. We cannot move ahead. So my question is as follows: What are you going to do to help the middle class so that the cost of living does not destroy us?”
Harris: “Thank you for your question. And your point, listen, I know prices are too high still. You know prices are too high still. And we have to deal with it. Here’s how I feel about it. Again, you’ve heard my story. I I come from the working class. I’m never going to forget where I come from. And part of what we have to do is build what I call an opportunity economy where people have the opportunity, like you have described, for you to be able to work hard, and your five daughters have an opportunity to then do what they and what you aspire for them to be able to do. Without having to worry about just getting by, I want you to be able to get ahead. So here’s my plan. It includes what we need to do to bring down the cost of, for example, groceries. One of the issues I’m going to be taking on his price gouging.”